Before We Vanish

Don't let them into your head.

A paranoid sci-fi thriller about identity and invasion that uses intimate domestic estrangement as the entry point for an unsettling mystery about what it means to be human.

Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place.